What was Tarsila do Amaral known for?
Tarsila do Amaral was one of the leading figures in defining a Brazilian modernist tradition. Hers is one of many cases illustrating the centrality of women artists in modernizing art movements throughout Latin America.
What medium does Tarsila do Amaral use?
PaintingDrawing
Tarsila do Amaral/Forms
Where did Tarsila do Amaral?
Tarsila do Amaral, (born September 1, 1886, Capivari, Brazil—died January 17, 1973, São Paulo), Brazilian painter who blended local Brazilian content with international avant-garde aesthetics. Amaral, who is usually simply called Tarsila, began studying academic painting in 1916.
When did Tarsila do Amaral?
Inventing Modern Art in Brazil. “I want to be the painter of my country,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) in 1923.
What kind of art did Tarsila do Amaral do?
In which art period was Tarsila do Amaral most famous?
modernist artists
She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style.
Where did Tarsila do Amaral go to school?
Académie Lhote1923–1923Académie Julian1920–1921
Tarsila do Amaral/Education
What school did Tarsila do Amaral go to?
What did Tarsila do Amaral create?
Antropofagía
The exhibition celebrates Tarsila’s most daring works and her role in the founding of Antropofagía—an art movement that promoted the idea of devouring, digesting, and transforming European and other artistic influences in order to make something entirely new.
What inspired Tarsila do Amaral?
Upon returning to Brazil in the mid 1920s, do Amaral began to experiment with a form of lush nature painting. She took fresh inspiration from the colors of the Brazilian landscape, previously considered to be in bad taste, enthusiastically incorporating Brazilian themes.